Tatsuo Miyajima: I-Model
27 September – 2 November 2013

Lisson Gallery presents its third solo exhibition of Japanese
artist Tatsuo Miyajima, an immersive and interactive installation comprising three
new bodies of work based on his ongoing use of numerical displays constructed
from light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

The show’s title, I-Model,
refers to Miyajima’s collaboration with an artificial life expert, Professor
Takashi Ikegami of Tokyo University, which has resulted in a computer programme
that generates number sequences responding to the rhythms and speeds of others
in the system. Instead of a collection of randomised counting circuits, these
networks or clusters of flashing digits come together to create intelligent, ‘living’
organisms, which Miyajima calls Corps
Sans Organe after Antonin Artaud’s term for an ideal, virtual body that could
function independently from the interconnectivity of its constituent parts.

The Rhizome series (all
works 2013), are similarly complex and hypnotic works, formed of glittering grids
or panels of coloured LED numbers, also following Ikegami’s unpredictable logic
processors. Lisson Gallery is also debuting Miyajima’s seductively red leather-clad
structure, Life Palace (Tea House) (2013), which occupies an entire gallery and
invites one viewer at a time to step into a domed constellation of blue lights,
with numbers glowing and blinking in the darkened space. This personal,
meditative isolation chamber reinforces Miyajima’s Buddhist-infused philosophies
about time and contemplation, reflecting the cycle of life through the progression
from 1 to 9.